[M] Tarborough 14^th Dec^r 1789. Dear Sir Your lett^r of 20^th Oct^r last is before me approving the measures I had taken Respecting the Sale of the Public Powder [strikethrough: and ammunition] & your [undecipherable] securing the Magazine against any Indian attacks — I am sorry it has not yet been in my power to detect & bring to condign punishment the Villains who Stole the Powder — I shall however be attentive to the matter in hopes of discovering the Villains hereafter — we have just got the most agreeable intelligence of the accession of North Carolina to the Gen^l Government, permit me S^r to congratulate you on this an important event, I hope it may produce a Happy Change in the Politicks of this State — our Assembly are to meet in this town on the [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] of next month, where I [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] great & [undecipherable] to long [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] those [undecipherable] will give way to a more Enlightened Policy — every Exertion will be made to get the Ware house to be built and the building a State house here — at the next Session — Col^l Doc^r S Foulks who I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] — and to all [undecipherable] am Sir for the [undecipherable] as I am a true Federalist and am his great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] members — being under the Necessity of discharging a Note in New York I take the Liberty to draw on your infav^r of Col^l R^d I. Doseler for Fifty Dollars — in part of my acc^ts against the United States Since 1^st July 1788 — which Sir please to pay & place to my acc^t — I am with great Esteem Sir your Most Hum^ble Serv^t — Jero^l Moury — [Docket: Col^l [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Strength / to a [undecipherable] / of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Dec^r 14^th 1789.] Gen^l Knox Secretary at War —